Artifact Details

Title

Deuce - Working on the drum

Catalog Number

102680504

Type

Still image

Description

Black and white image of inside the Deuce with a man working . "Label under image "Robert Reid posing behind the drum. The drum stored 8k x 32 bit words on 256 tracks of 32 words each. The 16 heads can be seen at the right of the drum, and the whole read head assembly can move to 16 positions."

Date

1959 ca.

Dimensions

overall: 11 in x 8 in

Category

Photograph

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015